| Occupation title source |
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Astronomus |
| Occupation title (english) |
Astronomer |
| Hiscode |
01350 |
| Description of Image |
A man, wearing a broad-brimmed hat, kneels in a flatbottomed barge laden with vegetables, which he has brought to the edge of a canal. He passes some vegetables, turnip-like kohlrabi, to a bareheaded woman who is kneeling at the edge of the street to receive them. Behind her, a man with a soft cap pushes a wheelbarrow loaded with the vegetables away from the canal's edge towards buildings across the market square. The wheelbarrow must be heavy: the man pushing it has supporting straps across his shoulders and back down to the handles; and he stoops slightly with the weight.
On a regular ba...
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| Gender |
Male |
| Title of the image |
Astronomus |
| Translation (English) |
Astronomer |
| Language source |
German |
| Country source |
Germany |
| Artist's name |
Jost Amman |
| Artist's years and locations |
1539-1591 |
| Date of creation |
1568 |
| Medium |
Plate |
| Collection name |
Ständebuch |
| Provenance |
Jost Amman's Staende und handwerter mit versen von Hans Sachs. Frankfurt a/M 1568, Reprint Muenchen 1884 |
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